Stoves



E. HOSFORD.

Magazine Stove.

No. 86,072. Patented Jan. 19, 1869.

fivve'rvl'07 N.PETERS, PHOTO-UTHOGRAPHER wAsHmGToN D C amt ----eeea-ELIHU .HOSFORD, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Letters Patent No. 86,072, datedJanua/ry 19, 18 69,

IMPROVEMENT IN BASE-BURNING STOV'ES.

The Schedule referred to in these Lotte Patent and making part of thelame- To all whom it may concern.- Be it known that I, ELIHU Hosronn, ofOhicag in the county of Cook, and in the State of Illinois, haveinvented an Improvementin Base-Burning Stoves; and do hereby declarethat the following is a full,clear,- and exact description thereof,reference being bad to the accompanying drawing, making a part of thisspecification, in which- Figure l is a vertical central section on theline xx of fig. 2.

Figure '2 is a horizontal cross-section on the line y 1 a of fig. 1.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in eachof the figures.

My invention relates to heating-stoves in which the downward draught isemployed; and

It consists in providing suitable openings through the sides ofthecombustionphamberand ash-pit, below the grate, and covering saidopeningswith mica, for the purpose of illuminating a room by means ofthe burning gas.

In the annexed drawing A represents the cylinder;

B, the combustion-chamber and ash-pit; and

O O, the hollow columns or flues for connecting said combustion-chamberwith the hot-air chamber and All of these are similar in construction toand perform the same oilice as like parts in my coal-stove andcooking-range, for'which Letters Patent, Nos. 76,455 and 80,484, weregranted me.

Drepresents a conical grate, resting upon the upper end of a hollowcolumn, E, (as in the before-mentioned cooking-range,) the lower end ofwhich projects below the bottom of the combustion-chamber, and forms aflue through which a current of cold air passes upward against thebottom of the grate, from whence it spreads outward and downward (asshown bythe blue arrows) until it reaches the circumference of saidgrate, and meets the descending current of gas and smoke from theburning fuel, with which it unites, causing the most perfect combustionto take place, and producing a brilliant sheet of flame.

Toenable the process of combustion to be observed, and also to enablethe light from the burning gas to be usedfor illuminating the room, anumber'of openof the combustion-chamber, and in the door to the same.

I am aware that the use of similar openings in the sides of a stove,above the grate, has long been known, and therefore is not new; but thisis believed to be the only instance iii-which said openings have beenmade below the grate for such a purpose.

Having thus fully described the nature and merits of my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The application .of the openings F F to the base of a stove, below thegrate, substantially as and for the purpose shown.

. In testimony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand,this 4th day of January, 1869.

E. HOSFORD. .Witnesses:

' GEO. S. PRINDLE,

EDM. F. BROWN.

ings, covered with .rnica, F F, are provided in the sides-

